Africa’s largest supermarket chain has fallen victim to a cyber extortion gang that is threatening to leak customer data online unless it pays up.
In its notice about the breach, Shoprite said affected customers would receive an SMS to the cell number supplied at the time of the transaction. RansomHouse is a new extortion market that first appeared on the dark web in May 2022, Bleeping Computer“It’s been quite some time since we encountered something THAT outrageous,” the group said about the Shoprite breach on messaging platform Telegram.
“If their position doesn’t change, most of this data will be sold with something disclosed to the public.”
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